Power efficiency comparison of enterprise-class blade servers and enclosures

With rising energy costs continuing to demand larger portions of organisational budgets, Dell Inc conducted a range of tests to examine the true power efficiency of the top three global blades server providers and compare and contrast the results. Each blade configuration included an enclosure configured as similarly as possible and was fully populated with each company’s best-selling blade servers using identical processor, RAM and hard drive selections. The tests revealed that the performance and power efficiency of Dell M-series blades can result in significant operational cost savings.